Easton Flag
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The Easton Flag is a banner used to represent Easton, Pennsylvania. It is designed opposite from more common Flags of the United States in that it has 13 (8-pointed) stars in a blue field, with 13 stripes in the canton[1]. According to local legend, the flag was hoisted when the Declaration of Independence was publicly read in Easton, 8 July 1776.[2]
The flag was used as a company flag under Captain Abraham Horn in the War of 1812, and some suspect that the design may only date from this era.[3][4] The flag was returned to the Easton library for safe-keeping when the company returned. The Easton Area Public Library still holds the flag.
[edit] References
- ^ Mastai, pg 39
- ^ Easton Public Library
- ^ This Smithsonian webpage says the flag is from 1812, and has a picture of the original.
- ^ It's worth noting that US flags of this era had 15 stars and 15 stripes.
- Mastai, Boleslaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange The Stars and the Stripes. The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present ©1973. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-394-47217-9
[edit] External links
Flag history from Easton Area Public Library
